>Retro gaming in 2016
Why?
Because good games remain good indefinitely. Sure, controls get more streamlined and learning curves get steeper, but a well crafted game is always worth experiencing.
Fuck the Space Sim genre has only been mirror polishes on games from 2004, which are in turn a refinement from a bunch of games from 1998. No reason not to experience earlier entries
why is it so ugly
>>339333697
I know this is bait, but what port of Final Fantasy VI is that? Jesus it's ugly
>>339335517
IT's the steam version
http://store.steampowered.com/app/382900/
>They want $16 for this
I'm glad ff6 is in hd now :)
>>339333697
>backgrounds and enemy sprites are gorgeous
>characters look like this
why live.
Man, fuck that.
>>339335759
stop
>>339336227
holy shit, ff6 got DESTROYED with these new graphics
>>339335571
>Mostly positive reviews
>For a lazy mobile port
PC master stoops lower everyday
>>339335571
>>339335759
>>339336317
Please tell me they didn't fuck up the opening. It's one of the great classic RPG openings of all time, that Mode 7 was choice, PLEASE TELL ME THEY DIDN'T FUCK THAT PART UP
>>339336514
No... they would never fuck it up :)
>>339333697
Jesus fuck what have they done to ff6??
>16 dollars
FUCKING GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!!!???
16 DOLLARS FOR A FUCKING PHONE GAME PORT OF A 1994 GAME????
Man, you could do so much with 2d remakes of old games, but sadly this is what we get.
If we do get a full remake for FF6, what would you guys like to see? I heard that they're willing to do remakes outside of FF7.
>>339336676
>>339333697
FF6 is one of my favorite games. Seeing these sprites literally makes me a little sick. >>339336676
Oh no, it just got worse.
>>339333697
>Japan has tons of pixel artists for hire
>Don't hire them, upscale the graphics in Photoshop instead
The monsters actually look good.. shame about the characters
>>339336153
Panzer dragoon series though to bad you emulate saturn
Wow SNES graphics so shitty :)
>don't have original cart
>carts are expensive as fuck now
>have to play the PS1 port
I don't care what anyone says, CD discs are an abomination sent by satan
What I don't understand about FF5/6 iOS/Steam is they literally could have released straight ports of the games, no work needed
Instead they put actual work into mangling them like they did
>>339338562
>>339338562
But it's in HD now :)
>>339338562
Then you would have people complaining about straight ports instead of redoing graphics, nobody wins.
>>339333697
>enjoyed the GBA port
Do I have shit taste?
>>339338517
Or just emulate, faggot.
>>339338984
What if you want your friends to see you're in game and post ff6 achievements on your profile?
>>339338881
GBA port is fine, the music took a hit though
>>339338728
>nobody wins
Yeah, the games do. Don't want them to be remembered like that
>>339335759
Me too!
>>339339279
Amazing :)
>>339339073
Then post about it on facebook
>>339339279
I love how detailed the town buildings are.. it really brings the game to life :)
>>339339279
please stop
it hurts
>>339339279
Wew had not seen the world map. Why on earth did they make it 3D?
I'm glad I can finally experience ff6 how the creators intended it
>>339339279
what is this abomination
>>339340723
Isn't that FF5?
>>339337831
>upscale the graphics
I fucking wish
>>339340825
rused friend :)
The portraits are actually fine.
The "generic mobile gaming aesthetics" filter is fucking awful though.
I wonder why every mobile game strives to have these same unnatural, plastic and disposable looks.
>>339335759
>>339336317
>>339338660
i never actually thought of how retarded the characters would look in their normal pose if they were more detailed
it's kind of funny how less detailed graphics like in >>339338316 actually make the characters look better
>>339341219
Everything is fine except for the font, the UI and the FUCKING CHARACTER SPRITES
>>339336153
what about disc-rot
>retro gaming in 2016
>>339341260
>their normal pose
Original sprites are made with the different angle.
>trashy port of a trashy game
What's the problem?
>>339341498
>FF6
>Trashy Game
Apologize!!!!!!
>>339341579
I'm not even trolling man. Do you even remember the original FF6?
>neo square enix
>giving a fuck about FF games other than VII, X and XIII
Pick one
>>339337697
The animation for the magitek armor walking has like five frames...
https://youtu.be/sYpFC5eVvLg
>>339341673
Yes, I played it as a 13 year old and it was one of my favorite games.
I remember /v/ actually defending this when it came out
>>339341306
Only really occurs to discs without cases honestly.
>>339341831
Okay. Now tell me this, does it hold up to today's standards? Have you forgotten the bugs, the glitches, the exploits, the items/weapons/abilities/skills/magicite that were completely and utterly worthless?
>>339333964
/thread
Playing old games without giving a crap if the animations or graphics are outdated will still most likely give you a way better time than most of the games you can buy today
>>339341925
Played it for the first time last year, it was excellent.
Didn't come across any glitches and didn't find any exploits.
>>339335421
They hired the most amateur of amateurs who have no idea how pixel art worked, how to scale for different resolutions, and just dump loads of disparate art into the game without considering how they look together.
The character sprites were redrawn by the original artist but the color palette doesn't match the rest of the game. The actual tiles that make up the environment are literally the exact same tiles redrawn, but without taking account of the way the original art worked, you can easily see the seams all over the place. The UI is just a stock Android one. They added character portraits to dialogue boxes that, again, clash horribly with the other artstyles.
This is Square spending the absolute minimum amount of money to remake the game, and then putting it up on the app store for a ridiculous premium price.
It's unbelievable how the FF phone ports and the DQ phone ports-- both produced by the same company --are on totally opposite sides of the spectrum in terms of quality.
>>339341925
What are you talking about? Do you think ff7 is better? LOL
FF13?
>>339341925
Played it a month ago for the first time. It holds up better than FF7.
>>339342058
>You will never be able to play a premium HD ff6 port
feels fucking bad man.
>>339342090
>>339342008
>>339342118
>what am I talking about
Tell me, what happens when someone inflicts the blind status on you? what happens when you have high magic evade? How useful is, say, bushido when compared to just spamming ultima 4 times in a row?
>>339342090
VII is pretty much equally good and XIII is better, but the real question is why the fuck would you not play V if you want to play a SNES Final Fantasy since it's not only the best game on the system but the best game in the series.
>>339342242
Really... 6's story is so much better though
>>339333697
>>339342008
You never used Relm then. Did someone tell you not to use Relm because even if you don't give a fuck about Relm using her is tempting for a certain cave where you find a "treasure hunter."
>Original
>Shadows and reflections in hair
>Only red and yellow clothes because there's 3 pixels, imagination assumes it's much more detailed
>Character at an angle showing both feet, normal standing pose
>Remake
>Flat green texture for hair, looks like a helmet
>Flat red and yellow texture for clothes, even though there's plenty of room for detail, no room for imagination
>No shadows for depth
>Character has a perfect profile, only showing the side, pose is like she's thrusting her dick forward and breaking her back
>>339337190
V and VI deserve at least remakes in the style of IV PSP. I'd love ones styled after IV DS but that one is very divisive.
>>339341609
i cri evrytiem i remember this tragedy of a port, why was this allowed
>>339335759
Please God make it stop
>>339342297
Indie games are amazing :)
>>339342278
VI has good character moments but the story is nothing special. VII is the same.
>>339342452
Was it only good because I played it when I was 13?
>>339333697
Because modern gaming sucks.
>>339342492
You be the judge of that. If you enjoy it whatever the reason may be, good on you.
>FF7 got full remake
>FF6 got this
It would benefit so much from a full remake. All those things from beautiful arts could've been in full 3D and very detailed.
>>339333964
First post best post as usual. Pack it up OP, your shitty thread is over.
>Art will never be this good again
I got chills
>>339341260
Right, it's because the older ones were actually made to fit in with the other graphics and used the snes palette to the fullest.
The newer sprites were never intended to have more than the 256 colors the snes was limited to and have too much detail so they don't even look like the sprites they're supposed to be mimicking, and also look like they were shoved through a shitty filter with gradients so they clash with everything, and as >>339341470 points out they didn't even remake the sprites correctly.
And then they didn't even bother to remove the shitty phone ui for the pc.
>>339336676
>finally got the technology to make HD sprites
>we get rpg maker tier port instead
>>339342794
they're multiplyin'
>you will live to see the time when RPGs die and are replaced by ARPGs or just action games because "muh menu simulator not enough button mashing"
i hate being alive
>>339343770
Press A to fight :)
Wow RPGs are a great genre!`
>>339339279
This isn't really real, is it? Come on, you did this in Paint.
>>339343873
You just posted one which doesn't have that problem. You can make it as hard as you want by not sticking to certain job comps and turning down the encounter rate.
>>339341609
HOW THE MOTHERFUCK DO YOU FUCK UP A TILED ROCK TEXTURE
DIFFERENCE CLOUDS YOU DUMB NIGGER
>>339343897
Everyone did their individual job and no one thought to QA the entire thing.
Still no mod that fixes the sprites and UI then? Would be nice to play the GBA additions in a format that didn't have shitty resolution and sound compression.
>>339343897
No it's real. I just reverse image searched >>339344065
>>339344152
Play the sound/graphics restoration patch. It's not perfect but it's a lot better.
>>339344065
This is the original
I see nothing wrong with it ;^)
>>339344065
>>339344253
nah senpai this is the original
bump
stop talking about uncharted and doom you retards
>>339336901
Underrated post
>all these emulator screenshots
>>339345091
I think RA with some nice crt ffilter does the job just fine.
>>339345581
i just came
why can't i buy this on steam????
>>339345581
It comes close, but nothing beats the magic of a PVM.
Certainly better than >>339336676
>>339345654
Retroarch is a free emulator.
The filter in question is analog shader pack 2.6 from RR forum.
>>339345712
Close is all we've got for now.
>>339341413
>Sandman
>Clearly is Moonman
>>339342581
That's because FF6 isn't as liked as you think and the vocal minority in this thread is the most cancerous of all FF fanbases, not even Squenix thinks highly of it
>>339342581
I love Amano's artwork
So what's the best version of this shit? SNES? Isn't there some romhack that takes the best of all the versions and makes one super version that's superior to them all?
>>339346553
GBA version with a sound patch in my humble opinion.
>>339346553
GBA version has more content, but shrunken screen space and worse music/graphics. A patch fixes the graphics and mostly fixes the music, but still has a different translation to the SNES version. You can make the case for either translation being better.
Shame square does such a halfassed job about ports.
Wanted to pick up FF tactics to finally play it so went on choosing which version to play.
Original FFT is cool game but translation is fucking bad, not to mention looks like shit on modern tv so psn is out of question.
PSP version have some shitty slowdown on every skill and spell and if you patch it out you are left with audio that can physically stub your ears.
Seriously how fucking lazy you have to be to not include a fucking reverb filter in the re-release.
Extra content is nice but if i have to listen to heavily distorted sound trough all game I am out, not to mention that music and thunder sound fucking awesome in original FFT and in psp version sound like heavily cracked ass farting.
Ended up patching psx version with new translation, slapping heavy AA (monitor is far away so everything look crisp clear) and called it a day.
Fucking awesome game also, shame gets bit too easy after few first encounters.
I I would legitimately got a game if they bothered releasing either psp version with sound that doesnt sound worse than original or psn version that have new translation or at least doesnt look butfucking ugly on HDTV.
>>339343770
>RPGs die
not while pokemon is still making money
>>339347403
nigga i love pokemon but
>Pokemon
>being close to a good RPG in any aspect
yes, pokemon will survive, but because normies love pokemon for being a casual as fuck RPG with barely any obligatory text/dialogue to read, while most other good RPGs franchises will die
>>339343873
I'm sorry to hear about your cancer.
>>339347657
What is pokemon, a bad game, will survive but good games will not
I'll take "Something that have never happened" for 800, Trebek
>>339347657
I think normies love pokemons just because pokemons are the new "the cake is a lie"
>>339341470
Well, this is shit, its like none there have any self-awareness.
>>339342297
Loved playing around with this back in the day.
FF6 is just regarded as meh in Japan which is why it got the regular SNES game treatment. FF7 is their flagship and most precious "break incase of urgent funds needed" backup
People wanna meme Woosley since they're brain damage literists who want the exact literal japanese translation, localization be damned. But Woosley made Kefka what he is and why he's so well liked in the West.
>>339350783
>But Woosley made Kefka what he is
Eventually I plan on reading it in Japanese and I'm afraid it won't be as good because of this.
>>339333697
>take one look at every popular game burning development resources being all about making bank on retards with cosmetic microtransaction bullshit
Why?
